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[margo]

May 2

"We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but it's application presented difficulties beyond our conception. What with our ultra-modern standards, our scientific approach to everything, we are perhaps not well equipped to apply the powers of good that lie outside our synthetic knowledge."

The Doctor's Opinion, 4th Edition, Pg. xxvii

[lanie67]

I just read this yesterday. It is interesting to me how closely some of the early members of alcoholics anonymous worked with psychiatrists and institutions in searching for a cure for their alcoholism, since so many were very low-bottom drunks and were institutionalized. It helps to remember that nowadays since so many alcoholics have a secondary diagnosis as well (or even a third and fourth).